On March 2, 2015, a combined force of the Iraqi military and militia began a 30,000-troop assault to regain several regions north of Baghdad controlled by the Islamic State. The effort includes an att...

In a case brought to court by seven same-sex couples in the state, U.S. District Judge Joseph Bataillon struck down the Nebraska ban on same-sex marriage on March 2, 2015.
The decision could allow s...

Over 19,000 people have been affected by a swine flu epidemic that began in India in mid-December 2014. The disease has killed over 1000 people, as of February 28, 2015, while health officials struggl...

On February, 25, 2015, a jury found Eddie Ray Routh guilty of the capital murder of Chris Kyle, author of the military memoir American Sniper, and fellow veteran Chad Littlefield.
During the trial, ...

As he promised, President Barack Obama vetoed the Keystone Pipeline Bill when it reached his desk on February, 24, 2015. The project has been pending for six years, and its future continues to remain ...

An initiative that legalizes the use of marijuana in private for those 21 and older took effect in Alaska on February 24, 2015. Citizens can also grow up to six plants in their house and be in possess...

The U.S. and Iran are moving to close a deal intended to limit nuclear activity in Tehran. The deal, which as currently proposed by the U.S. would limit Iran's nuclear activities for 10 years, has be...

Islamist Militant group al-Shabaab, who took credit for the 2013 attack on the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, released a video on February, 21, 2015, calling for an attack on the Mall of America, ...

More than 100 people were onboard a passenger ferry in Bangladesh when the boat was hit by a cargo vessel on February, 22, 2015. At least 50 passengers were rescued from the Padma River after the ferr...

A food desert is a geographic area characterized by a lack of affordable and healthy food choices. Food deserts tend to be located in poorer communities. The existence of a food desert has been connec...

In 1996, The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was signed into federal law by President Bill Clinton. The law defined marriage as a union between one man and one woman in order to deny same-sex marriages...

Net neutrality is the concept that all Internet providers, as well as the government, treat all forms of data on the internet equally. Allowing net neutrality means an Internet that is open and free t...

Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, made the observation in 1965 that the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits (processing power for computers) had doubled every year since the ...

In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg released a series of confidential papers detailing the U.S.'s political and military involvement in Vietnam to the New York Times. The documents revealed the U.S. had secretl...

Malala Yousafzai, born July 12, 1997, is a Pakistani activist for female education.
On the afternoon of October 9, 2012, Yousafzai boarded her local school bus in northwest Pakistan. A gunman pointe...

A massive earthquake, lasting less than a minute, shook San Francisco, California on April 18, 1906. The disastrous impact of the earthquake ignited several fires around the city, which burned for thr...

The Strategic Defense Initiative, also known as Star Wars, was initiated by President Ronald Reagan in March 1983 at the height of cold war between the US and the Soviet Union. This program intended t...

Interpol is an intergovernmental organization established in 1923 to facilitate international police cooperation.
Most of its operating expenses are raised through contributions from 190 member coun...

Citizens United v. FEC came before the U.S. Supreme Court in 2009.
In 2008, lobbying group Citizens United was prevented from airing commercials for its political documentary, which was highly critic...

Pinot Noir is the prized red wine grape of Burgundy, France (where it was exclusively grown for years) that has now been adopted in wine regions all over the world including: Germany, Italy, Chile, So...

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